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Fulham 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Public Health Act. 1936 - Section 144(1) "When an inmate of any building used for
human habitation is suffering from .... every medical practitioner attending on, or
called in to visit, that inmate (in this section referred to as "the patient") shall, as
soon as he becomes aware that the patient is so suffering send to the medical officer of
health of the district in which the building is situate a certificate in the form set out
in the second schedule to these regulations".
The following infectious diseases are at present notifiable in Fulham:-
Acute Encephalitis Measles
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia Membranous Croup
Acute Primary Pneumonia Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Anthrax Plague
Cholera Puerperal Pyrexia
Diphtheria Relapsing Fever
Dysentery Scabies
Epidemic Diarrhoea (Under Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
5 years of age) Smallpox
Erysipelas Tuberculosis
Pood Poisoning Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
Leprosy Typhus Fever
Malaria Whooping Cough
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
| Fulham residents | 9 |
| Non-Fulham residents | 3 |
| Total cases notified in Fulham | 12 |
| Fulham residents notified to other Authorities | 18 |
| Total number of Fulham cases | 27 |
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS
| Fulham residents | |
| Paralytic | 3 |
| Non Fulham residents | |
| Non-Paralytic | 1 |
None of the three Fulham cases, which occurred in persons aged 2, 3 and 47, had
been immunised